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If you want to download songs of your favorite bands, but don’t understand how all peer-to-peer software works or you are worried about facing legal consequences by downloading from P2P networks, then you might want to use a program called Clickster.

Clickster uses Google and other search engines

to find MP3’s, which have indexed more MP3’s than the P2P networks, so that means you can find just about every song and not have to worry about illegal downloads. The music industry does not seem to care (or does not know) that Google has more MP3’s indexed than all the P2P networks combined.

Clickster is a freeware program and is really easy to use. Once you have it installed, it loads up with a simple interface where you type in the name of the song or artist and the search begins! You can download the files directly or you can play them through the interface by double clicking on the song name.

Pretty sweet! No need to worry about downloading bloated P2P software that might have spyware if you just want to listen to a little music while working on your computer!

Source: http://www.ghacks.net/2007/03/22/search-for-and-download-mp3-with-clickster/

 

 

Most people listen to songs from bands they like and sometimes search for the lyrics of a song if they can’t quite make out what’s being sung. However, for those of us who happen to listen to the lyrics of a song and want to find out who sang it, there are some useful lyric search engines

that do just that. Frankly, this happen to me all the time!

It’s amazing how many times I’ve jumped into my car and turned on the radio, really liked the song that was playing, but at the end of the song there was no announcement by the DJ of the artist or band! I understand the whole “back-to-back” song broadcasts on radios these days, but it would be really nice if there was a quick mention of the song name at the very end!

Anyway, so if you know some of the lyrics for the song you’re looking for, you can try out a few of these lyric search engines to try and find the band or song name. Actually, there are quite a few of them out there, but only a few really have large databases of song lyrics. So I put a couple to the test to try and find a fairly new song by the Red Hot Chilli Peppers called Californication with the query “the sun may rise in the east”.

These are the search engines that actually found the song:

1. Get Lyrical – You can also search by Artist, by Song, or by Album.

2. Search Lyrics – This site also has some non-English lyrics and you can translate any of the English lyrics to another language on the lyric pages. Get Lyrical finds an exact match for your lyrics whereas Search Lyrics searches for those words anywhere in a particular song and will return a result even if the words are all not together.

3. LyricsFly – Found my song also, but make sure you click on Lyrics first and then perform a search.